Talk:Balthazar's sword/@comment-3284606-20111109205440/@comment-3284606-20111113040112

It could be magic or science, I don't care, I JUST WANT AN ELECTRIC SWORD!!!

For reference: it takes 6000 volts just to generate those tiny annoying sparks you get off doorknobs. The sparks' range is controlled by voltage, and deadliness is controlled by wattage (volts times amps), so you just have to to have high amps and low volts. After all, in my original scenario the electricity gets conducted to the bad guy through direct metal contact, so range of the attack is a non-issue.

Come to it, lightning attacks like Mud Face uses must have very low amperage if it has enough volts to strike across the distance shown and still be survivable.